Update to the update to the update: Bachmann campaign manager Keith Nahigian released this statement late this afternoon:

“We have a great team in New Hampshire and we have not been notified that anyone is leaving the campaign. We look forward to spending more time in the Granite State between now and the primary, but our campaign has emphasized that our main focus is the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa and we are continuing to build efforts there. While she will campaign in other states, Michele will spend the majority of her time in Iowa, doing what she does better than all the other candidates – retail politics – leading up to the all important caucuses.”

Update to the update: The New York Times is now reporting that Michele Bachmann’s New Hampshire campaign manager is indeed leaving her presidential campaign.

Update: Michele Bachmann herself told Radio Iowa‘s Kay Henderson that reports of staff quitting her campaign in New Hampshire are untrue.

“There’s no truth to that story, so this is a rumor and I think it’s highly reprehensible for the media to publish a story without calling us, the campaign, to even find out if that’s true,” Bachmann told Henderson.

Original post:

A New Hampshire TV station broke the news this morning that presidential candidate Michele Bachmann’s staff in the first-primary state has walked off the job.

The five paid staffers apparently were frustrated over Bachmann’s lack of engagement there. The Minnesota congresswoman has focused her attention almost exclusively on Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, and has visited New Hampshire only sparingly.

The resignations follow several other departures in recent weeks by top members of Bachmann’s national campaign staff, including her campaign manager, deputy manager and pollster.